Trump administration targets Cop City protesters in latest push to prosecute ‘antifa’

Critics say the government is creating a boogeyman' in its drive to use the antifa' label to frame protesters as terrorists

The federal US government is sweeping up protesters against Cop City, a police training center outside Atlanta, in its push to prosecute what it calls antifa" - even as state attempts to prosecute activists over the same incident failed for the second time this week.

The case offers insight into the Trump administration's drive to link the idea of anti-fascism to terrorism, drawn into focus by the decades-long sentences given to protesters against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Prairieland trial in Texas, also this week.